Esh'col, The valley
or The brook of, a wady in the neighborhood of Hebron (Mamre), explored by the spies who were sent by Moses from Kadesh-barnea.
Nu 13:23-24; De 1:24
The name is still attached to a spring of fine water called 'Ain Eshkali, in a valley about two miles north of Hebron.
Soon they arrived in the valley of Eshcol, where they cut a single branch of grapes and carried it on a pole between two men, along with some pomegranates and figs. The entire place was called the Eshcol Valley on account of the cluster of grapes that the men of Israel had taken from there.
Then these men set out, went up to the hill county, reached the Eshcol Valley, and surveyed it.
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